"Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"
Tim W. - "Clarify
"What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice.
"Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product.
Rephrase Question
With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer
"As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow,
Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... '
Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey)
Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments
Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc)
Share why are you looking for a new role
Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"
Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow,
Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... '
Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey)
Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments
Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc)
Share why are you looking for a new role
Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer
"I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"
Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer
"Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"
Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer
"Smart Lock :
Clarifying Questions :
Are* we *talking about the locks we use for the doors or locks used for suitcases or study lockers ? "Scope is yours"
What do we need by smart ?
Are we a company that are already in lock business? - Yes
Do we have significant marketshare in lock business ? - Yes
Are we trying to address or improve any customer pain point or improve our metric? - "No"
Customer Segment :
Tech savvy -
non tech savvy- Customer buys
Old"
Hari priya K. - "Smart Lock :
Clarifying Questions :
Are* we *talking about the locks we use for the doors or locks used for suitcases or study lockers ? "Scope is yours"
What do we need by smart ?
Are we a company that are already in lock business? - Yes
Do we have significant marketshare in lock business ? - Yes
Are we trying to address or improve any customer pain point or improve our metric? - "No"
Customer Segment :
Tech savvy -
non tech savvy- Customer buys
Old"See full answer
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"Situation - A time where I had to collaborate with a team member in another department was while I was at Google working on my hotel project and had to work with the legal department for our OOBE flow.
Task - I was tasked to work cross functionally with the legal department to lead the design of the out of box experience for our product to ensure our guest users were sure of policies around data and privacy.
Action - In order to establish cadence and effective relationship building, I set up a t"
Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I had to collaborate with a team member in another department was while I was at Google working on my hotel project and had to work with the legal department for our OOBE flow.
Task - I was tasked to work cross functionally with the legal department to lead the design of the out of box experience for our product to ensure our guest users were sure of policies around data and privacy.
Action - In order to establish cadence and effective relationship building, I set up a t"See full answer
"Situation - A time I had to think “outside of the box” was while I was at Google working on hotel solutions for smart displays. Smart displays are mutli-modal meaning they accommodate both touch and voice. I was given the task of leading the effort of scaling a new third party solution on top of our existing first party design system. However, the pandemic caused an unfortunate turn of events in that the needs of guests changed drastically and now needed a much more voice forward solution for"
Ben G. - "Situation - A time I had to think “outside of the box” was while I was at Google working on hotel solutions for smart displays. Smart displays are mutli-modal meaning they accommodate both touch and voice. I was given the task of leading the effort of scaling a new third party solution on top of our existing first party design system. However, the pandemic caused an unfortunate turn of events in that the needs of guests changed drastically and now needed a much more voice forward solution for"See full answer
"Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.)
Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product
Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy
The product design aligns with goals and branding of company
Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"
Ben G. - "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.)
Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product
Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy
The product design aligns with goals and branding of company
Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"See full answer
"Situation - A situation where I used creative / innovative thinking to eliminate frustration with a product was while I was working on Point of Sale and Polaris for Retail Design System for Shopify. Upon seeing our vision for the future of this design system, it lacked a lot of the visual polish and necessary components that would make the product much more competitive in the market - this included having a lack of an interaction model for what is tappable vs. not tappable as well as containmen"
Ben G. - "Situation - A situation where I used creative / innovative thinking to eliminate frustration with a product was while I was working on Point of Sale and Polaris for Retail Design System for Shopify. Upon seeing our vision for the future of this design system, it lacked a lot of the visual polish and necessary components that would make the product much more competitive in the market - this included having a lack of an interaction model for what is tappable vs. not tappable as well as containmen"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience.
2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general
3) Market - US
4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B.
Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience.
User-segments: People who use i"
Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience.
2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general
3) Market - US
4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B.
Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience.
User-segments: People who use i"See full answer
"Adding to what Zoe already mentioned:
running a user study with existing customers to understand if they see the proposed design as favorable
running AB testing with users to compare two different designs and decide which one is more favorable (based on a previously determined metrics)"
Vlada J. - "Adding to what Zoe already mentioned:
running a user study with existing customers to understand if they see the proposed design as favorable
running AB testing with users to compare two different designs and decide which one is more favorable (based on a previously determined metrics)"See full answer
"Situation - A time when I worked well on a team was while I was working with the larger team at Blade to do the redesign before their IPO. Essentially, we had a month to launch a redesign (both visual and UX) of the entire project
Task - I was tasked to direct all design efforts and strategy for the mobile and web experience on blade - being a lead in the trifecta group.
Action - Through effective teamwork, we all led strategy and championed our areas of product, design and engineering. As a"
Ben G. - "Situation - A time when I worked well on a team was while I was working with the larger team at Blade to do the redesign before their IPO. Essentially, we had a month to launch a redesign (both visual and UX) of the entire project
Task - I was tasked to direct all design efforts and strategy for the mobile and web experience on blade - being a lead in the trifecta group.
Action - Through effective teamwork, we all led strategy and championed our areas of product, design and engineering. As a"See full answer
"Ask Follow up Questions
Is this for specific type of user or open?
Do we have any past research that has been done?
Do we have an idea of company and user goals?
Do we have metrics of success?
Are there any existing constraints?
Why | 5 min
Why is this product or feature important?
How does this product benefit customers?
What business opportunities does it create?
What is our hypothesis?
What are our company goals?
Who | 3 min
Who are the different types"
Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions
Is this for specific type of user or open?
Do we have any past research that has been done?
Do we have an idea of company and user goals?
Do we have metrics of success?
Are there any existing constraints?
Why | 5 min
Why is this product or feature important?
How does this product benefit customers?
What business opportunities does it create?
What is our hypothesis?
What are our company goals?
Who | 3 min
Who are the different types"See full answer
"i would follow engage/ listen/understand/collaborate/engage/resolve- approach to manage conflicts.
I would explain each phase in a project where I face conflict and how I used above approach to resolve the conflict"
A B. - "i would follow engage/ listen/understand/collaborate/engage/resolve- approach to manage conflicts.
I would explain each phase in a project where I face conflict and how I used above approach to resolve the conflict"See full answer